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Aim and Background: One of the most important challenges for chronic disease is treatment adherence. Many factors are affected on adherence. This study focuses on emotion regulation, self-compassion and spiritual wellbeing as predictors of treatment adherence in diabetic patients.

Methods and Materials: This was a descriptive and correlational study. The sample consist of 210 diabetic patients whom selected by convenient sampling method in clinics of Shahid Beheshti university hospitals. Participants responded to General Adherence Scale (GAS), Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS), Self-Compassion Scales (SCS) and Spiritual Well-Being Scale (SWB). Collected data were analyzed via SPSS 21 software and by linear multiple regression method.

Findings: Results of stepwise multiple regression analysis showed that difficulty in emotion regulation and self-compassion are significantly predicted treatment adherence of diabetic patients. But spiritual wellbeing was not significant in regression model.

Conclusions: The results of this study showed that most of diabetic patients have moderate levels of treatment adherence. By considering the importance and high prevalence of diabetes, enhancing self-compassion and emotional regulation skills as effective factors in self-care and treatment adherence of diabetic patients, should come under scrutiny.

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Aim and Background: Cancer and its special treatments and hospitalization in the cold environment of the hospital have deep psychological effects on children.  The present study was conducted with the aim of determining the effectiveness of the cognitive intervention program and family-oriented play therapy on depression and anxiety of children with cancer. Methods and Materials: The study is a time series quasi-experimental design with multiple groups. The sample included 45 children between 7 and 10 years old with brain tumors selected from Mahak's Pediatric Cancer Hospital purposefully and by considering the inclusion and exclusion criteria. After matching in terms of age and gender, the subjects were randomly replaced in 3 groups of 15 people (group 1: cognitive rehabilitation; group 2: cognitive rehabilitation with play therapy; group 3: control group). The experimental groups received relevant interventions in 8 sessions. The pre-test, post-test and 1-month follow-up of the participants of all 3 groups were conducted with the Children's Depression Inventory (CDI) and the Spence Children's Anxiety Scale (SCAS). In order to analyze the data, split-plot ANOVA design (SPANOVA) was used. Findings: The results of the study indicated that both interventions had created significant changes in the variables of depression and anxiety in the experimental groups (significance level 0.01). Depression and anxiety in children of both experimental groups, especially in the cognitive rehabilitation group with play therapy, were reduced compared to the control group. Conclusions: Based on the findings of the study, it can be concluded that rehabilitation and play therapy, especially rehabilitation with play therapy, which had a more stable effect, can be used to reduce depression and anxiety in children with various types of brain tumors. Therefore, the use of rehabilitation therapy integrated with recreational play therapy is recommended to resolve these children's problems more deeply and permanently.

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Aim and Background: The prevalence of low birth weight is one of the important sanitary indices in evaluating the prenatal care all over the world. So, recognition of risky factor related to low birth weight can help prevent the occurrence of being low birth weight. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of positive intervention on reducing depression, anxiety and stress in mothers with Infant’s low birth weight.
Materials and Methods: This semi-experimental study was conducted as pre-test and post-test with control group. Statistical population included all mothers with Infant’s low birth weight in the city of Dezful. From among these mothers, 30 mothers were randomly selected and put into the experimental and control groups of 15 persons each. The DASS-22 Scale was the instrument of this study. First, the pretest was conducted on the two groups. Then, the experimental group was exposed to an eight-session training of group schema therapy these sessions were weekly held in group. At the end, the post-test was applied on both groups. One-way analysis of variance was used for intergroup changes using SPSS version 25 software and a significance level of P<0.05.
Findings: The results of univariate covariance analysis showed that the positive intervention reduced depression, anxiety and stress of mothers with low-birth-weight babies (P<0.001).
Conclusion: According to the obtained results, it can be concluded that positive intervention is an effective treatment for reducing depression, anxiety and stress of mothers with low-birth-weight babies and generally improving people's mental health